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Saturday, February 18, 2012

The VOW

Based on the love story of 2 devout Christians, the motion picture version of "The Vow," starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, strips the tale of its overt religious themes, which has some Christian reviewers curious. The film is based on the authentic existence story and book, “The Vow” through Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, which draws heavily on that couple’s Christian beliefs along with the durability of God to heal and shepherd a marriage via difficult occasions.

'The Vow' is surprise winner of weekend box office

The book tells the story of Kim and Krickitt, who met and fell in love over a long distance phone call in 1992, bonded over their Christian faith, and were married a extremely short time later. only TEN weeks into their wedding, the couple survived a bad car wreck that left Krickitt in to a coma with severe head trauma. Upon waking, Krickitt experienced amnesia and was essentially married to a stranger, forgetting the last 18 months of her lifestyle.

Throughout the book, it would be that the couple’s spiritual belief from the unbreakable vow of wedding that keeps them together.

“You prepare a promise before God with your wedding vows,” Krickitt Carpenter told Fox411.com. “You have to take that seriously.”

The studio version of the Carpenter’s marriage, but, strips the couple of their Christianity.

“The video doesn’t talk regarding faith significantly. It might have been nice to observe more of it,” Kim Carpenter told Fox411.com. “The first book we wrote was super embedded in our faith, but I imagine the video does depict the inspiration of the battle to hang of there. I believe the audience realizes we are a men and women of faith.”

Some video critics would have liked to observe more overt references to the couple’s faith as well.

“It was a sweet story however it didn’t have any strength to it,” said Ted Baehr, the publisher of TheMovieGuide.org, a Christian family cause to motion pictures. “Making it more secular diminished the durability of the motion picture. It didn’t make sense that it was so sublimated to secular values. The real world consists of the 82 percent of Americans who believe in god who expect faith and values in a highly hugelyir films.”

The movie version of “The Vow,” rated PG-13, was a enormous hit over the weekend, raking in over $40 1000000, and another $11 thousand on Valentine’s Day alone. but it is hardly family friendly fare. There are innuendos that the couple through the motion picture, named Paige and Leo, engages in premarital sex. a single of the characters in the film has an extramarital affair. The couple’s marriage is non-denominational. They furthermore get a divorce through the video, something that the Carpenters vowed not to do in real existence.

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